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The Center for Housing Policy’s publications cover a range of topics, programs and policies related to the broad goal of identifying and meeting the nation’s housing challenges.
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Apr 1, 2007
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Shared Equity, Transformative Wealth
Rick Jacobus
This report takes an in-depth look at three different shared equity approaches and shows that the best shared equity programs can build significant wealth for one family after another without any long term loss of affordability.
Apr 1, 2007
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Preservation of Affordable Homeownership: A Continuum of Strategies
Rick Jacobus, Jeffrey Lubell
This report provides an overview of the homeownership strategies available to communities and explains the pros and cons of different approaches.
Mar 1, 2007
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The Importance of Integrating Rigorous Research Objectives Into Any Reauthorization of the “Moving to Work” Demonstration
Jon Baron, Jeffrey Lubell
The Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration was launched in 1996 to test different approaches for helping families with children make progress toward self-sufficiency and improving efficiency in the public housing and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher programs. Should the demonstration be reauthorized, the paper stresses that it is imperative that it be designed and funded in such a way as to learn real, validated lessons about which approaches are most effective for helping families make progress toward self-sufficiency and achieving the other goals of the demonstration. To this end, the demonstration’s research objectives should be integrated into the core fabric of the demonstration and adequate funding should be provided to ensure that an evaluation can be conducted utilizing the highest professional standards.
Jan 1, 2007
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Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook of High-Impact State and Local Solutions
Jeffrey Lubell
Prepared by the Center for Housing Policy for Homes for Working Families, this handbook identifies six broad strategies that state and local governments can adopt to preserve and increase the supply of homes affordable to working families, along with 22 specific policies to help implement these strategies. Brief case studies show how these solutions have worked in communities around the country.
View the detailed Analysis (115 pages, PDF) that provides an in-depth discussion of the 22 policies and why they were selected.
View the one-page Fact Sheet (PDF).
Oct 1, 2006
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A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
Barbara J. Lipman
How do low- to moderate-income working families balance their housing costs with commuting and other transportation costs that are part of their daily routines? Our analysis of 28 major metropolitan areas shows that, as working families move further from work to find housing they can afford, they end up spending as much, or more, on increased transportation costs as they save on housing. Individual profiles for the 28 metropolitan areas included in the report are also available.
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley